Troc CDs livio minafra

On his new solo album "La Fiamma E Il Cristallo" (the flame & the crystal) Livio Minafra brings his personal art of piano performance some steps nearer to perfection. Starting off from melodies and harmonies that sometimes may resemble Debussy, Chopin, Paganini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mediterranean folk tunes or even silent movie music, the pianist soon gets into improvised virtuoso flights of his free, jazz-inspired imagination. As Italian critic Fabrizio Ciccarelli puts it: "The 'academic' components are fragmented, decomposed in the light of a syntax that is strictly personal and anything but rational, characterized by dynamic and fertile inventiveness." In Livio Minafra's playing a fierce intelligence and an overwhelming technique open new spaces for improvised music with a thrilling rhythmic drive. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------